Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:

Dear team leader, wiki page maintainers,

I would like also to encourage people not to use the city page to describe your event. Here is why:

* This is usually a shared page between all teams, so it should point to each team/event page * If so far there is only you, maybe it would be nice to allow another team to register and put their link on that page * Do not assume only you is interested in celebrating SFD in your city, you might be surprised to find other communities * Administration: having city pages with only team listing will allow us to easily move the pages for 2011, if there is a lot of stuff related to your event it will make the work a lot more difficult for us * If your team name is the city name, then just add SFD before or after the city name and you've got yourself a new team name separate from the city name. ;-)

http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Europe/United Kingdom/Manchester I have used the city page to describe our event. Here is why: * We are the only team in Manchester that has expressed an interest in running a SFD event. * More, we are the only team in North West England, which has a population of 6,853,200 according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_England * We have been bringing the various interested parties in Manchester together for an event. This is much better than having separate events. The event is run like a bazaar, with stalls having different aspects of free software. People can then cross pollinate. I recommend this model to SFD teams.

o Make our community appear well coordinated to the press and visitors

I recommend that the SFI concentrate their efforts into advertising the event and better preparing for next year. The number of people who are into free software yet still don't know about SFD is unbelievable. MFS and FFSUK have been doing their best to advertise SFD around the UK but it is still surprising when you tell someone who is really into free software about SFD and they say they've never heard of it. After they know about SFD then they get really into it. Next year it would be good to have: * the registration open early (rather than really late like this year) * a stable wiki (rather than the various wiki issues like this year) * better advertising, including by the Sponsors and Supporters. (rather than little and late advertising I've experienced this year even by the Sponsors and Supporters!) * a pack containing T-shirts, balloons, stickers, OpenDisc, FSF recommended distros <http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html> (rather just Ubuntu CDs like this year) Back to organising SFD 2010 in Manchester. Regards, Mike.

Hi, I'm Paulo, from Brazil :-) I have some suggestions for the future. I'm note sure with you know the event called "Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISoL)" (in spanish). It's very similar to SFD because It happens in many cities of Latin America in one day per year (april). But the focus is to promote "install fests" where volunteers install free softwares in computers. We can install all OS GNU/Linux or some free softwares at Windows. Like SFD, is very usually the cities have speakers to talk about something. Also, It's a free event (no costs). It's very usually the same time organise FLISOL in april and SFD in september :-) But now, we have more times at FLISOL than SFD in Brazil. Well, I like very much the FLISOL site because there is a menu with links per country. So, the master site is in spanish, but brazilians can see easily the link "Brasil" and read in portuguese. And in the Brazil page, we can see all cities where there is a time. I prefer see the times per country than all in one page like SFD. Fred told me we can help to translate the wiki. Let's try :-) Best Regards, -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana http://www.phls.com.br Tel. (41) 9638-1897 GNU/Linux user: 228719  GPG ID: 0443C450 .